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NEWS — A federal appeals court wrestled in oral arguments on Tuesday with a Biden administration request that it pause...
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NEWS — Senate Republicans say they’ll keep pushing for more funding for Ukraine and defense even in the wake of...
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NEWS — A bloc of Republican hardliners took down the GOP leadership’s efforts on two bills this week, a move...
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NEWS — More than $100 million in funding has been distributed for repairs to Jackson, Mississippi’s beleaguered water system, President...
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Washington NEWS — The pharmaceutical company Merck sued the US government Tuesday over a law passed last year that empowers...
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Washington NEWS — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
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NEWS — Although it’s named the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the compromise debt ceiling package that President Joe Biden signed into...
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NEWS — Denver voters will choose their next mayor Tuesday in a runoff contest that could see Colorado’s largest city...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden is set to convene his Cabinet Tuesday, bringing his top lieutenants together to discuss a...
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NEWS — When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered his initial speech as a declared presidential candidate in Iowa last week,...
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NEWS — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is rejecting GOP criticism of the debt limit deal he struck with President Joe Biden...
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Washington NEWS — Former President Donald Trump, now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, claimed in a television interview...
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NEWS — The Biden administration on Monday announced a goal to produce 50 million metric tons of clean hydrogen fuel...
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NEWS — As the Supreme Court races to issue all outstanding opinions by a self-imposed early July deadline, there is...
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NEWS — Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley addressed a broad range of issues Sunday night during a NEWS town...
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NEWS — House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ken Buck criticized the bipartisan debt ceiling deal reached between House Republicans and...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden signed into law Saturday a bill to suspend the nation’s debt limit through January 1,...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden sat behind the Resolute Desk in his first evening Oval Office address with a clear...
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NEWS — The Senate voted late Thursday on a bill to suspend the country’s debt limit through January 1, 2025...
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Washington NEWS — President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Friday evening – his first...
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NEWS — Work requirements in two safety net programs for low-income Americans are set to change under the compromise debt...
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NEWS — Even as Joe Biden appears to have pushed off reaching the next debt limit until 2025, top Democrats...
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Washington NEWS — Both the Senate and the House have now passed a bill to block President Joe Biden’s student...
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NEWS — Senators are racing the clock to pass a bill to to suspend the nation’s debt limit through January...
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NEWS — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in February made a bold prediction about the GOP and the debt ceiling,...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden ended the month of May the same way he began it: with a phone call...
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NEWS — Hitting the campaign trail in Iowa on Wednesday for the first time as a presidential candidate, Florida Gov....
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NEWS — A hospital in Idaho has been diverting ambulances to other hospitals for more than 24 hours because of...
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NEWS — House Republicans defended their broadening of work requirements for safety net programs in the debt ceiling bill on...
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Washington NEWS — If passed into law, the bipartisan debt ceiling deal will dash any hope borrowers might have that...
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NEWS — Sen. Joe Manchin’s monthslong effort to greenlight the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline – a project that will pipe...
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NEWS — The House of Representatives is on track to vote Wednesday on a bill to suspend the nation’s debt...
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NEWS — The US government took one step back from self-inflicted economic disaster on Tuesday. House Republicans avoided the first...
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NEWS — The nation is days away from defaulting on its obligations. The Republican House speaker, pushed by conservatives in...
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NEWS — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy helped secure a debt limit deal – now he has to secure its passage...
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NEWS — Two of the nation’s most intractable problems might have the same solution – if the idea was not...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy convinced themselves of a compromise deal to slow federal spending...
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NEWS — Rep. Chip Roy accused House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday of cutting a deal that could complicate negotiators’...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden and House Republicans have reached an agreement in principle to address the debt limit and...
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NEWS — Party leaders in Washington are waging an urgent campaign Monday to convince Democrats and Republicans to get behind...
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Washington NEWS — Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Sunday that White House negotiators...
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Wilmington, Delaware NEWS — The “agreement in principle” clinched by House Republicans and the White House late Saturday to raise...
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NEWS — After several weeks of tense negotiations, President Joe Biden and House Republicans have reached an agreement in principle...
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NEWS — White House and House GOP negotiators are racing to finalize a deal to raise the nation’s debt limit...
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NEWS — Congress must address the debt ceiling by June 5 or the US Treasury will not have enough funds...
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NEWS — US officials believe Chinese hackers could still have access to sensitive US computer networks they’ve targeted in recent...
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Washington NEWS — Invoking the 14th Amendment to lift the borrowing cap on the US debt ceiling as a way...
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NEWS — There are signs that negotiations over raising the nation’s debt limit are gaining momentum, but major differences remain...
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NEWS — Just six days remain before America could run out of money to pay its bills in a calamity...
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NEWS — Rep. Susan Wild, one of the country’s most politically vulnerable Democrats, made her displeasure known over the White...
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NEWS — Nearly five months before the US was projected to hit the debt ceiling, a small team inside the...
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NEWS — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears set to send members home after votes on Thursday, signaling that debt negotiations...
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NEWS — Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch fizzled like one of Elon Musk’s early rocket prototypes. The Florida governor has been...
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee during a hearing to review the fiscal year 2024 budget...
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NEWS — If the US is not able to pay all its bills for the first time ever, senior citizens...
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NEWS — Chinese government-backed hackers are likely pursuing cyber capabilities that could be used to “disrupt critical communications” between the...
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NEWS — The House on Wednesday failed to override President Joe Biden’s veto of a measure related to solar panel...
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NEWS — When Tesla CEO Elon Musk first mused about buying Twitter in early 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was...
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Washington NEWS — In January, as Kevin McCarthy fought to win the House speakership through 15 rounds of grinding votes...
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NEWS — Donald Trump and his allies are planning a coordinated effort to upend the media cycle around the presidential...
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NEWS — Investors and the public have been content to largely brush off the slow-motion Washington march toward a self-imposed...
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NEWS — Tucked into high-stakes debt ceiling negotiations is a critical energy provision that Democrats and Republicans in Washington both...
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NEWS — The issue of so-called judge shopping – the funneling of lawsuits through courthouses where a particular judge is...
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Washington NEWS — The Biden administration’s one-time student loan forgiveness program is facing a fresh threat from House Republicans while...
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NEWS — Negotiations are continuing to unfold in an attempt to reach a debt limit deal, but major differences between...
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NEWS — Florida lawmakers were poised this year to protect election workers from harassment. Then, conservative “election integrity” activists worked...
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NEWS — Ron DeSantis’ decision to announce his 2024 White House bid in a conversation with Elon Musk on Twitter...
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NEWS — The senior general in charge of US forces in the Middle East ordered that his command announce on...
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NEWS — Last week, the Congressional Progressive Caucus posed a formal ask to its members: were there any proposals they...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden has nominated an Air Force general to head the nation’s powerful electronic spying agency and...
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NEWS — Sixty percent of Americans say Congress should only raise the nation’s debt ceiling if it cuts spending at...
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NEWS — The clock is ticking for President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to come to agreement to...
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NEWS — Sen. Tim Scott announced he’s running for the Republican nomination for president on Monday, setting up a challenge...
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NEWS — The countdown is on, the stakes are high – and there is still no debt limit deal. President...
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Washington NEWS — America is heading close to the brink of a self-imposed economic disaster with the Republican-led House refusing...
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Hiroshima, Japan NEWS — It hardly required a degree in international relations to comprehend the weighty symbolism at play here...
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NEWS — Ron DeSantis is going to run for president talking about his record in Florida. Joe Biden is too....
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NEWS — The Treasury Department is steadily draining the funds it has to pay the nation’s bills during the debt...
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NEWS — Debt ceiling talks between the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’a office have hit a snag, and...
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Hiroshima, Japan NEWS — President Joe Biden faces his fellow world leaders Friday in Japan under the shadow of a...
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NEWS — Two days after his second recent meeting in the Oval Office to discuss raising the debt ceiling, House...
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NEWS — The Biden administration announced new steps Thursday to assist the nations unsheltered population, launching a new initiative accelerating...
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NEWS — For the first time in months, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appear to be on...
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NEWS — Spain’s equality ministry says it will launch an app designed to monitor the sharing of chores between members...
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NEWS — Two Republican committee chairs are demanding the Central Intelligence Agency turn over a series of documents from an...
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NEWS — The Biden administration proposed a new rule Wednesday meant to prevent students from taking on an unaffordable amount...
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Washington NEWS — The pause on federal student loan payments is still set to end later this year, Education Secretary...
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NEWS — A former Washington, DC, Metro transit system contractor retained access to “critical and sensitive” Metro data from his...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden on Wednesday sought to lay out how he’ll continue to negotiate with congressional leaders on...
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NEWS — With work requirements for safety net programs emerging as a central issue in the debt ceiling negotiations, President...
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Rome NEWS — Italy, a country once known for its big families gathered around the dinner table, is facing a...
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Hiroshima, Japan NEWS — President Joe Biden once hoped his trip to Asia this week would strengthen American alliances, counter...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden’s pledge to the world that “America is back” after a period of political turbulence is...
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NEWS — The US State Department on Tuesday offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest or...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden is canceling his upcoming visits to Papua New Guinea and Australia due to the ongoing...
